The SPA needs a course correction
by Jay Williams Click to view online The SPA needs a course correction February 5, 2020 |Jay Williams, Jr. The Advocate First Scots’ Fellowship Hall was so packed for January’s Charl ...
CHS | The SPA can’t be left unleashed by Jay Williams Jr.
Is the Sunshine drawing rave reviews? Not from Charleston residents. This isn’t about the heat; this Sunshine is the third in line of ever-larger Carnival ships to be home-ported here. For one citi ...
It’s time for the SPA to sell Union Pier
By Jay Williams, Jr. As Venice, Italy plans a multi-billion dollar mainland cruise terminal in response to cruise ship damage to the historic island city, the South Carolina State Ports Authority ( ...
Citizens’ groups act to defend our legal rights
Citizens’ groups act to defend our legal rights Could anything impact Charleston’s future more than the proposed new 100,000 sq. ft. cruise terminal at Union Pier? Yes. There’s the possibility t ...
Cruise terminal controversy may have only one solution
The Advocate By Jay Williams, Jr. There’s good reason for the cruise terminal controversy. Union Pier may be the worst place to put it. There must be a balance between residents’ quality of l ...
CHS | Vote Tuesday… Charleston’s future is at stake
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Charleston’s mayoral election. The City is at a crossroads. Traffic congestion has worsened; May is now gridlock. Hundreds of new hotel rooms have j ...
CHS | That proposed Cruise Terminal – Where are we now?
Two years ago, United States District Court Judge Richard Gergel handed the cruise terminal opponents their first victory, tossing the SPA’s federal permit to build a proposed $35 million terminal at ...
READER COMMENTS on TODAY is the Day to Write Your Letter
Done! … This is quite a hard hitting blog…Interestingly, [my wife] and I were in both Dubrovnik and Venice and it was quite evident that Venice was in the midst of a massive plan of moving the cruis ...
CHS | TODAY is the Day to Write Your Letter!
If you think sending a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers regarding the proposed giant cruise terminal isn’t important, please consider the events of May 12, 2015. This was the day the City Counci ...
A New Tide of Tourism
Ah, the Tourism Management Plan. Well, that got slightly derailed when Historic Charleston Foundation decided it could, in spite of the 2014 moratorium, add candlelight tours in February.(1) Now the ...